sleepyTHERE WILL BE SPOILERS.
Seriously. If anyone comments here at all, THERE WILL BE SPOILERS. So please don't read and then yell at me because you encountered spoilers. You were warned. (I will not reply to every comment; I call partial comment amnesty. But I may well join some of the discussion, or answer questions or whatnot.) I will be DELETING all comments containing spoilers which have been left on other posts. No one gets to spoil people here without a label.
You can also start a discussion at my website forums, with less need to be concerned that I will see everything you say! In case you wanted, you know, discussion free of authorial influence, since I always wind up getting involved in these things.
Have fun, and try not to bleed on the carpet.
May 7 2014, 17:24:59 UTC 3 years ago
- I missed the Halloween story, especially with it being referenced in one line somewhere else. I dunno if that's one of the changes in Rose canon or if it just didn't have a place in this formatting, but I missed how creepy and cool the whole notion was.
- Larry's story, the strigoi, and Gary coming back were all so familiar and wonderful and reassuring. Love them. :)
- I didn't remember Amy as much, for some reason, but she and Mary were two of the most interesting random side characters, I thought. I also really liked the killing of Route 14, and the notion that it was all twisted around the simple ghost of one dead hitcher! For some reason I expected it to be something bigger and more terrible, and it was really cool to have something so potentially threatening be caused by just one lost soul.
- Rose as psychopomp is awesome in general, and becoming so much more powerful and important because she's accepted her role as Bobby Cross' opponent is really cool and affirming.
- For some reason I never realized before how female-heavy Rose's stories are. I enjoyed seeing the gender balance tip a little more heavily in the direction of the main character (and of my gender; yay, seeing ourselves represented!), and that so many of the powerful alliances, friendships, and interactions were between women.
I'm excited for when I can have a dead tree copy to pet and put on my shelf (ebook was faster for immediate reading). :)
May 7 2014, 18:04:04 UTC 3 years ago
Mary and Amy were both new to this volume.
Yay, dead tree editions!
May 8 2014, 15:42:52 UTC 3 years ago
If it helps, I at least am completely on board with the shiny new universe, and would love to see more of it, divergences and all! Especially since you give us such great new characters. :)